2025 was quite a year for May Cobb. Her 2021 release, The Hunting Wives, was adapted on Netflix and took the world by storm! Preparing for the release of her newest thriller All the Little Houses and an upcoming second season of The Hunting Wives, 2026 is looking to be just as fulfilling for fans of May Cobb. If you’re looking for some other juicy and addictive thrillers with strong female casts and deadly secrets like a May Cobb novel, check out these unputdownable thrillers!

All the Little Houses by May Cobb

In Longview, Texas in the mid-1980s, Nellie Anderson is the daughter of the Anderson family dynasty and used to getting whatever she wants. Her mother, Charleigh Anderson, the blonde and beautiful, remembers when she was Nellie’s age and was living on the poor side of town shunned by the popular crowd. She had to claw her way to the top and now a new family moves into town that is the epitome of a perfect family with a trad wife, woodworking dad, and wholesome daughter, Charleigh’s empire is threatened and she simply can’t have that.

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Everyone Is Lying to You by Jo Piazza

Lizzie and Bex were best friends in college, but once they graduated, Bex vanished and Lizzie was confused by the sudden end of their friendship. Fifteen years later, Bex is now an Instagram influencer known as Rebecca Sommers who promotes her “trad wife” lifestyle with her five kids and husband, Gray while Lizzie is a struggling writer for a magazine. When Bex calls Lizzie for the first time in fifteen years, she offers her an exclusive interview and invitation to MomBomb, the influencer conference. When Gray is found murdered on their ranch and Bex goes missing at MomBomb, Lizzie is thrust into the dark underbelly of the trad wife life style and toxic influencer culture as she searches for answers.

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One of Us is Dead by Jeneva Rose

Jenny owns Glow, the membership-only beauty salon that is the hottest place to get your hair done, and hear the latest gossip. When one of her clients is murdered, Jenny and the other women of Buckhead rely on gossip and exposed secrets to get to the bottom of this scandalous murder.

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Count My Lies by Sophie Stava

Sloane Caraway lies a lot. Usually, they’re harmless lies that make her life seem a bit more interesting. When Sloane sees a young girl in tears at a park one afternoon, she lies to the handsome father that she’s a nurse and helps the girl with a bee sting. As her lie unravels, Sloane finds herself the new nanny for Jay and Violet Lockhart. As she spends more time with the family, she realizes she might not be the only one lying and beneath the shiny veneer of this beautiful family lies deadly secrets.

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If You Tell a Lie by Lucinda Berry

Blakely, Grace, Meg, and Thera had been friends for years attending Camp Pendleton. Their senior summer took a turn when the handsome tennis coach was found murdered after a lie the girls were responsible for. They haven’t spoken with each other in twenty years and now, a mysterious note claiming to know what they did has forced the four friends to reunite.

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Too Old For This by Samantha Downing

It’s been decades since Lottie Jones changed her name and escaped to a small town, leaving her life of crime in the past. Now, Lottie engages in bingo and gossip for excitement. When an investigative journalist, Plum Dixon, is knocking on Lottie’s door to dig into Lottie’s past, she can’t let Plum know about her involvement with some unsolved cases. When someone else knocks on her door, Lottie realizes murder isn’t what it used to be.

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You Killed Me First by John Marrs

As a woman wakes up to find herself gagged and bound in the heart of a smoldering bonfire, she reflects on what happened that made her end up in this position. The book then goes a year back in the past as we meet three women who all live in the same suburb with terrifying secrets in their past. Margot is a former popstar, Anna hopes her jewelry making business takes off, and Liv is the new glamorous yoga instructor who just moved in across the street. As the Bonfire Night approaches, tensions rise and secrets threaten to emerge from behind the shadows.

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Their Double Lives by Jaime Lynn Hendricks

Kim Valva is a waitress who is struggling to make ends meet after her boyfriend recently cheated on her. Now her dog, Murphy, needs a life-saving surgery and Kim doesn’t have enough money to afford it. When a mysterious person known as The Stranger contacts Kim, they offer her enough money and more for Murphy’s surgery if she puts a pill in a member’s drink. When the member dies, Kim gets the money. When the target is none other than Kim’s first love and ex-boyfriend from high school, the tables turn when his new girlfriend is the one who dies. Now, Kim is more confused than ever and finds herself dealing with The Stranger while trying to piece together who is after who and what her next move should be.

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